More from Charles Dickens

  1. I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!
  2. He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was …
  3. 'Oh, dear no, miss,' he said. 'This is a London particular.' I had never heard of such a thing. 'A fog, miss,' said the young gentleman. 'O…
  4. Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.
  5. He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may…
  6. It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
  7. Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it me…
  8. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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